Talk about spreading rumors. Ew deadspin.

I always wondered about the reasoning behind this; I feel it's because most car trips are less than 10 miles.

As others said, you don't dump stuff at 6 pm EST Friday if you want to have a real impact. This was a sop to... someone. I don't understand ESPN politics, but like most big businesses, they are not a monolith. There are factions within ESPN and they are using this story to advance various narratives and hurt…

Hey Deadspin, specifically Tom Ley, it might be a classy move on your part to give the reporters on this story some credit in your piece by name (By Don Van Natta Jr. and Kevin Van Valkenburg). I know how much Deadspin hates ESPN, but this story was clearly very thoroughly reported, so just saying "reported by Outside…

Now THIS is getting goooood. *stuffs handful of popcorn in face*

Of course it's a wonderful relic! It's from BC.

I was afraid to open this article for fear of seeing some victim blaming idiodic tweet from an NFL player. Glad that's not what it was. At least 1 NFL Player has shit figured out.

Being funny, and occasionally serious. The nerve of this guy. And this article is funny AND serious! Who does he think he is !?

Bravo, Drew. And to all the people out there using the "My parents beat me, and I turned out fine!" line of thinking, here's a thought: Maybe you didn't turn out fine. If you are willing to beat up a little kid just because your parents hit you, you probably haven't turned out fine.

Hey KHOU, get your own reporter instead of just running AP stories.

"It has nothing to do with him as a football player. It has to do purely with the facts that we have, that have been presented to us."

Yes but...I think this shows us how the abused cope with being abused. It's important to note that all of these guys said that getting beat was the norm for them and that in some way it 'made them who they are today'. That is likely untrue, but they BELIEVE it's true. Peterson is likely coming from the same mindset.…

Wasn't watching. Still same position. If the offensive coordinator should know that this play has a high danger of resulting in a helmet to helmet hit on a quarterback then it should never be called. That's the logic being espoused here. In fact, it probably should be an illegal play under NFL rules. But as it's drawn…

nah, I aint down w/ the hoard mentality and being anti-jeze like an MRA rage-bro. I read jeze at least 2x week

Nah, Colts had the momentum, no need to make such a hot fuss out of that injury.

The allegation is he is a bigot. He can easily just think he's not and then he can deny them. He did not say "I never said those things", they carry very different weight both publicly and legally.

Go on...

Why does that matter if the cause is just?

Excellent fucking article. Great job.

Rivers: "Nnnnhh, peppermint roll!"